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LAPD targeted on Twitter after NY police backlash

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File photo: In this photo illustration, the Twitter logo and hashtag '#Ring!' is displayed on a mobile device as the company announced its initial public offering and debut on the New York Stock Exchange on November 7, 2013. Bethany Clarke/Getty Images

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Taking their cue from tweets bashing the New York Police Department, Twitter critics of Los Angeles police have been posting photos of people roughed up or injured in scuffles with officers in the nation's second-biggest city.

The NYPD has been stung by a public relations backlash after a Twitter request that people post feel-good photos of people posing with officers. It led to the posting of hundreds of recycled images of alleged police brutality and has now spread to other cities.

Some tweets under the hashtag #myLAPD mentioned referenced officers who recently tampered with in-car recording equipment in order to avoid being monitored. One included a photo of a woman who fell out of a moving police cruiser. Another put up images from a May Day melee in 2007 that resulted in punishment for many officers.